You can’t make this stuff up: World War II veterans come to Washington to see their monument, and the Obama administration tries to block them by putting up barricades. When that blunder starts getting media attention, the administration doubles down by paying union members $15 to march around, waving signs and protesting–as though that were a sure-fire way to generate sympathy for the nonessential federal employees who are getting the day off. Is it possible that the Democrats could be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

And does that perhaps have something to do with Obama’s backing down on his vow not to talk with Congressional Republicans? Obama has now invited Congressional leaders to the White House for talks on ending the spending impasse.

You’ll have to wait until for it — In less than 24 hours, evil businesses will start selling rotten meat, water will become infected with horrible bacteria, and planes will begin to fall from the sky. And zombies will walk to rule our land.

Or anything worse than that, that I can think up.

Maybe if we just laid off all non-essential people, permanently? Oh the horrors, what would the turtles do without their tunnels? Or the eagles without those eternal windmills killing them?

Curious why the market just spiked? The reason: first Obama flip flops, now it is the republicans’ turn to prove that all is fair in faux war and Congressional IMAX drama. Here’s the headline that drove it.